P mode will probably do ok. Set the program line to MTF so it just tries to pick the sharpest apertures. And yeah you have to pick an ISO or set it to Auto. You can preset the ISO beforehand if the lights going to be mostly the same. Also make sure you turn off back button focusing and they should be good to go. Green mode will only give you jpegs with basic settings. It can be useful though if you are giving the camera to someone who just wants a point and shoot.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > John wrote: >> >> On 2/8/2017 10:21 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> I see to recall that green mode shoots only jpeg. If I wanted my >>> housemate to be able to pick up my camera and get photos of the flood >>> waters tomorrow, I could say Tav, f/2.8-4 1/60-1/100. Will P mode >>> automatically pick a good ISO? >>> >> >> I don't see anything in the manual that says "Green mode" shoots only >> jpeg. If it's in there, I didn't find it. > > > I am sure that I remember reading that, and trying it out. However that must > have been on an older model because I just tried it and it seems to be in > raw on both the K-3 and K-1. > >> >> You could download the Operating Manual as a PDF & use it to guide you >> while you tell your housemate how to set the various controls instead of >> relying on us for second hand misinformation. > > > As we can see from the above, your second hand disinformation is more > accurate than my first hand disinformation. >> >> >> http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/man-pdf/k-3.pdf > > > You are making the assumption that I hadn't tried to RTFM. In my experience > the manual aspires to uselessness. The index points to setting the auto iso > limits, but not turning them on or off. I tried searching the manual, > several times, and wasn't able to find it, until I was able to find it and > then I was. On some of those searches, I will admit that I couldn't see > where auto iso was highlighted on the page. > > I was hoping that someone else had gone through this and could just say > "simultaneously press the iso and the green buttons to put it into auto iso, > but that only works in these modes....", which would have saved me about 45 > minutes of trying to find the information. > > >> > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
